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Jugs o' Clocks: Powercolor ATi HD3870 X2
Overclocker Must-Knows
Written by yantronic and filed under Guides > GPUs & Graphic Cards
Published on February 18, 2008, 3:49 pm
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Slashdot Overclocking introduces instability, and overclockers have to tradeoff between speed and "benchmarkability." Instability for benchmarkers often show up as artifacts, or the inability to complete tests.
We raised PCIe frequency to reduce possible texture-transfer bottlenecks. LinkBoost for ATi? Maybe.
Overclocking the HD3870 X2 beyond OverDrive capabilities invloves the use of a more capable overclocking tool. All you need is to download this utility, unzip it, and launch the executable. Linked clocks are however not functional, and you need to apply clocks for it to work.
A little trial and error gave us 22K in 3DMark06 on Quality mipmaps. Driver was a beta of the 8.45.1.2 version. More on the system below:
